"I admit that when the vast Troy plains were revealed before my eyes, the scene that once appeared in my childhood dream became a reality at this moment. I couldn't help but feel excited and couldn't hold on to myself." - German "archaeologist" Heinrich Schrimann, who discovered Troy, who discovered Troy.

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The remaining garrisons in the city hurriedly threw torches and bricks and stones at these things, but the thing wrapped in animal skins was obviously not consuming fire. The Medeje people holding the shield lined up and down, and they were getting closer and closer to the city wall. What exactly should we do? They were neither like long-range strikes, nor like sheep-headed hammers that hit the city defense. Finally, they approached the city wall, which was only twenty Roman feet away. The Medeje people used the torch to step into the cedar wood tube. The rosin, asphalt and sulfur inside burned violently, and then a few people shouted and started to use the blower at the tail to spray the flames outwards. Four fire dragons burned the linen cloth used to block stone bombs in the air, pouring them directly onto the battlements, and hustled. Many people in the garrison were covered with flames on their backs and waists, screaming and rolling down. Not to mention guarding, even the repair craftsmen were frightened. They threw down their work and ran towards the inner city.

Li Bida said it was the only way. During this day, his army laid wooden boards on the ruins, then pulled the "bellows cannons" in, and blasted fire everywhere, burning down one-quarter of the temple streets. Although this was a cumbersome and was far less efficient than sending infantry brigades to directly click on houses, the use of bellows cannons was obviously more deterrent. The flames spewed out by these monsters blackened the temple walls engraved with murals and hieroglyphs. The wooden houses were burned, and many priests died between the collapsed columns and floors.

The temple's documents were so scared that they pulled out their pens in the papyrus plywood, recording the terrible deeds of pagans using evil forces to drive the "giant black fire-breathing monster" to burn half of the city of Thebes. "The whole world of gods seems not to punish Pharaoh and his army as the high priest said, but to punish Thebes. The priests in this city may have been too vain and greedy in the past years and have lost the qualification to serve God. Abinus, the god of death, has reappeared on earth with the evil god Amit (the god with a crocodile head, hippo legs and lion body, and a specialty to devour the souls of the dead), and to rebuild the order of the God of Matt on the basis of destruction."

As a result, these ruthless manuscripts of the documents were caught by the passing high priest...

Finally, the messenger of the temple came to the military camp of Li Bida under the city and asked the other party to give peace.

"I will see the sacred servant of Pharaoh, not the priest." said the general.

The so-called saint is the officials who were directly under the pharaoh, who kept the corpse, tombs and statues for him. The messengers looked at each other and then explained that there were no saints in the Temple of Thebes, only the temple priests. Li Bida roared, "So, do you praise Pharaoh as the perfect god. The words of the gods among gods are completely false statements that are false to the snake?"

The messengers were all embarrassed: Isn’t this just a false condemnation? Although I know it is true, I don’t say it directly, so everyone can’t hold it in their faces.

After Li Bida got angry, he hummed and put forward conditions one after another, "You shall not interfere in the west bank of Thebes immediately, with the fortress group with the Temple of Serapis as the core."

"His Majesty's God, His Majesty, will enter the divine spectrum of Thebes, enjoy the same right to worship with the gods such as Amon, and participate in the Valley Feast Festival, and place it on the bow of the holy ship."

"This time, Thebes must take out two thousand Tarent's money to compensate our legion, and for the attack on the guards of the God's Tomb, the High Priest went to Alexander to apologize to His Majesty the Perfect God Pharaoh."

The last article, which shocked the messengers the most, Li Bida proposed this plan, "Thebes must accept a new decree, that is, the Pharaoh would then assign Nom (local commander) to station in the fortress. Once Nom gets the request for the top, if famine, disaster and military service, the Temple of Thebes will unconditionally hand over the annual income offerings, half of the food, and give them to Nom."

The messengers were shocked. They were all priests with some cultures. Naturally, they understood what Li Bida's condition meant, that is, the Pharaoh no longer allowed the city of Thebes to maintain the image of the country of "extraordinary law". Will the huge temple empire collapse? Should they be managed by Nom appointed by the Pharaoh? But the general in front of him was not a joke at all, "I am now the priest of Pharaoh (the prime minister of ancient Egypt), and also enjoyed the power of the head of Thebes Nom. We will immediately go to expedition to the tribes in the southern part of Cyrenega to escort Pharaoh's descendants back, so the 'half-tax order' will take effect immediately. Do you understand what I mean?"

The messenger's mind also turned, and he remembered the instructions of the high priest Pepmaat, "Try to turn the other party's normal request into temporary requests." He then started to be respectfully haha, "If His Majesty, the son of Ramon, needs to go on an expedition, Thebes will naturally assist in praying before God and provide a considerable reward. I hope the general will feel at ease."

"No." Libidaus's face was like a knife carving, cold as ice, and he paused word by word, "Has I not stated it clearly before? A half-tax order is a decree, not a temporary rise, half or half, no more or less, nothing more or less! Now you go back and give Thebes a day, and hand over all the rosters, contracts, and books in the hands of the treasurer."

The list is the name and family status of the tenant under the temple;

The contract is the farm and workshop under the temple;

The account book is the record of the temple's loans over the years.

If you hand over these, what value does Thebes have? But if you disobey this general now, it seems that there is no possibility of continuing to exist.

The butcher general of the temple then said, don't be foolish when you go back to sort out these things. I have hundreds of lower-level clerks who belong to the pharaohs, who will send you to "help" you organize them together, and take ten centurions and three hundred Medez Guards away.

In the end, the temple surrendered. When the fully armed soldiers escorted the envoys into the inner city of Thebes, the Libida army stationed in the ruins of the city began to make fires and cook, "So, what are you going to do after handing over these?" Standing at the camp tent and looking at the soldiers carrying things back and forth, Sabo turned around and asked carefully.

"Don't panic, Sabo, I know that Egypt is a country that worships gods much more powerful than Rome. Rome emphasizes the contract with God. I sacrifice to you and you repay me. The Egyptians seem to be not very clear about the difference between reality and the realm of gods. So my measures will not be particularly radical. I will immediately hand over the manpower and financial resources to the Pharaoh's treasury. From then on, these are all directly under the Ptolemy royal family and are managed by the Pharaoh's confidant treasury. And the rest, Sabo, guess what I will do?" Li Bida said this and deliberately kept it in secret and came to Sabo's answer. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!